Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fading fast. California's Governor Ronald Reagan last week admitted for the first time that he would accept a vice presidential nomination in the interests of party unity; previously, he had abruptly rejected any such suggestion. Illinois Senator Charles Percy, another dark horse, has disappeared in a very deep shadow. Neither showed promise of emerging from the penumbra except as possibilities for the second spot...
...imposing setting for a large battle. Around the plateau occupied by the Marine base lie tier after tier of higher ground, mountains ranging from 4,000 to 8,000 feet. Separating the enemy looking down on Khe Sanh lie deep ravines and draws, layered with a triple canopy of foliage on teak and mahogany trees as high as 200 feet. In topography, Khe Sanh looks like a smaller version of Dienbienphu, but the terrain and underbrush are far worse for an attacker. The Communists must go downhill through terrible maneuvering grounds, cross the ravines, then climb the plateau on which...
...fact, there was never much reason for hope. All indications were that the submarines sank in mile-deep waters, and neither had a "collapse point" beyond 1,000 ft. The doomed men died in the particularly horrible ways that threaten those who go under the sea in ships. If death came quickly, they either drowned or were crushed when massive undersea pressure wrenched the vessels' steel hulls. If the two submarines somehow remained intact, their trapped crewmen slowly suffocated...
...fire that followed the crash, technicians have taken ice-core samples that will be an alyzed for radioactivity in U.S. and Danish labs. If it is determined that any substantial amount of hot debris penetrated the ice and sank to the bottom of Baffin Bay, 800 ft. below, deep-diving submersibles (TIME, Jan. 19) may be called in to recover it, just as they were in the Palomares crash...
...waist deep in the Big Muddy...